As of Aug 11, The MacPorts repository hasn’t been updated with the latest gradle 1.1 release - searching for gradle only provides the 1.0 release. Could updating the macports repository become part of the release process?
$ port search gradle gradle @1.0 (devel, java, groovy)
An open-source build system that is based on the Groovy language
gradle-devel @1.0-rc-2 (devel, java, groovy)
An open-source build system that is based on the Groovy language
Found 2 ports.